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'''''Shaking Hands With Death''''' is a printing of the speech that [[Terry Pratchett]] wrote and gave alongside [[Tony Robinson]] for the Richard Dimbleby lecture in 2010. The lecture was first collected in print in {{SK}} in 2014. This separate edition was published after Terry’s death in 2015, and includes a new foreword telling the story of the speech by [[Rob Wilkins]]. | '''''Shaking Hands With Death''''' is a printing of the speech that [[Terry Pratchett]] wrote and gave alongside [[Tony Robinson]] for the Richard Dimbleby lecture in 2010. The lecture was first collected in print in {{SK}} in 2014. This separate edition was published after Terry’s death in 2015, and includes a new foreword telling the story of the speech by [[Rob Wilkins]]. | ||
A new hardcover edition of the book is to be published on 14 October 2025, with a new cover and updated introduction by Rob Wilkins. | A new hardcover edition of the book is to be published by Penguin Random House on 14 October 2025, with a new cover and updated introduction by Rob Wilkins. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
Latest revision as of 13:36, 12 July 2025
| Shaking Hands With Death | |
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| Co-author(s) | Rob Wilkins |
| Illustrator(s) | |
| Publisher | Corgi |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| ISBN | 0552172774 |
| Pages | 64 |
| RRP | £3.99 |
| Main characters | |
| Series | Peripherals |
| Annotations | View |
| Notes | |
| All data relates to the first UK edition. | |
Shaking Hands With Death is a printing of the speech that Terry Pratchett wrote and gave alongside Tony Robinson for the Richard Dimbleby lecture in 2010. The lecture was first collected in print in A Slip of the Keyboard in 2014. This separate edition was published after Terry’s death in 2015, and includes a new foreword telling the story of the speech by Rob Wilkins.
A new hardcover edition of the book is to be published by Penguin Random House on 14 October 2025, with a new cover and updated introduction by Rob Wilkins.
External Links
- A Tribunal of Mercy, abridged excerpt.
- Terry Pratchett: My Case for a Euthanasia Tribunal, longer excerpt.
- The Richard Dimbleby Lecture- Shaking Hands With Death (2010), video of the lecture.
- Penguin UK page for the book, with details of the new 2025 edition (cover not yet available).